Compilation of news reports – IAK staff
Israeli forces killed at least 62 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, including at least 14 aid seekers. In total, Israel has killed at least 2,430 aid seekers since May 27, 2025 (learn about aid seekers here).
The total known number of Palestinians who have died from malnutrition stands at 393, including 140 children.
For detail on Israeli attacks in Gaza on Sunday, go here.
BREAKING: Six Israelis Killed, 15 Injured in Jerusalem Shooting – What We Know
GAZA NEWS:
(For some basic info on the Palestine-Israel conflict, go here. For more critical context, skim this, this, and this.To read about a remarkable but underreported, 20-month-long peaceful protest in Gaza against Israel, go here.)
ISRAEL TARGETS DISPLACED FAMILIES AS HOSPITALS REPORT NEW MASSACRES: Israeli occupation forces bombed homes and sites sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City on Sunday, killing scores and issuing new threats to demolish residential towers. The army ordered residents to flee southward, warning of more strikes. Hospitals reported multiple attacks on shelters and schools.
MORE THAN 50 BUILDINGS COMPLETELY DESTROYED: Gaza’s Civil Defense reported that Israeli forces have completely destroyed more than 50 buildings in Gaza City and partially damaged 100 others.
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Rights Group: Israel Aims to Destroy Gaza’s Communications Infrastructure
A human rights organization, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, is warning that Israel is deliberately targeting Gaza’s communications infrastructure to deepen its policy of urban erasure, isolate civilians, and force them to flee. The group has issued a warning about an impending cutoff of communication and internet networks in Gaza due to the ongoing Israeli bombardment of residential towers.
The organization stated that Israel is seeking to destroy what remains of the communications and internet infrastructure to impose total isolation on civilians, thereby compelling them to forcibly displace.
The rights group added that cutting off communications also seriously hinders the work of medical and aid teams.
OCCUPIED WEST BANK/EAST JERUSALEM HEADLINES:
(For background on the West Bank, read this and this. For information on the significance of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, read this and this.)
ISRAEL’S BEN GVIR STORMS UMM AL FAHM, CALLS FOR MORE HOME DEMOLITIONS*: Itamar Ben-Gvir raided Umm Al-Fahm under heavy security, calling for further home demolitions, a move the municipality condemned as a provocative attempt to intimidate residents.
*NOTE: Punitive home demolition is a violation of international law.
WEST BANK HEADLINES:
Army Abducts Two Palestinians from Silwan
ISRAEL NEWS & HEADLINES:
(Get a glimpse inside Israel and the turmoil within its government. Often, our news items and headlines are taken from Israeli media.)
Israel’s top court says government is not giving Palestinian prisoners enough food
Israel’s supreme court has ruled that the government has failed to provide Palestinian security prisoners with adequate food for basic subsistence and ordered authorities to improve their nutrition – a rare case in which the country’s highest court ruled against the government’s conduct during the nearly two-year war.
Since the war began, Israel has seized thousands of people in Gaza that it suspects of having links to Hamas. Thousands have also been released without charge, often after months of detention.
Rights groups have documented widespread abuse in prisons and detention facilities, including insufficient food and health care, as well as poor sanitary conditions and beatings. In March, a 17-year-old Palestinian boy died at an Israeli prison and doctors said starvation was likely the main cause of death (continue reading here).
*NOTE: Of the over 10,000 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, about 583 have been sentenced to life imprisonment, many of them for involvement in resistance campaigns decades ago that killed Israelis.
The vast majority of Palestinians being held by Israel are political prisoners; thousands are administrative detainees, being kept behind bars without charge, trial, or access to a lawyer. A growing number are children. Israeli prisons regularly use torture (and have done so for over 50 years). It is not a stretch to call them hostages.
Each year, hundreds of Palestinians (many of them minors) are imprisoned for throwing stones, which can carry a sentence of up to 20 years – for Palestinians, not Israeli Jews.
RELATED: Haaretz Exposé: Malnutrition, Illness and Death – The Routine for Palestinian Prisoners at Israel’s Megiddo Prison
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Israeli FM warns EU recognition of Palestine will push Tel Aviv toward ‘unilateral decisions’
At a joint press conference in Jerusalem with Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar slammed European plans for recognition of a Palestinian state this month, warning, “It will push Israel also to have unilateral decisions, and that would be a grave mistake,” and urging “responsible states in Europe, including Denmark,” to push against the move.
In the Q&A portion of the press conference, Sa’ar addressed reports that Israel might annex parts of the West Bank in retaliation for Western recognition of a Palestinian state.
“We are having discussions on this issue with [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,]” Sa’ar says, adding vaguely, “There will be a decision. I think I don’t have to elaborate.”
ISRAEL HEADLINES:
Yemeni drone breaches defenses, strikes Israel’s Ramon Airport
Ex-Shin Bet chief involved in plot to kidnap German heiress’s children: Israeli media
FLOTILLA NEWS & HEADLINES:
(Read about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla 2025 missions here and here; learn about the deadly mission in 2010 here; and find out about the global flotilla here. Get live updates on the Global Flotilla from Al Jazeera here.)
Global Sumud Flotilla honors Aysenur Ezgi Eygi*: ‘As we sail for Palestine, she is with us’
The Global Sumud Flotilla marked the first anniversary Saturday of the death of Turkish American Aysenur Ezgi Eygi in the occupied West Bank, honoring her memory in a social media post.
“Aysenur and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and allies have been killed by the Israeli government and occupation over the decades, and they’ve done so with total impunity,” said the post.
“We understand that our safety and freedom as humanity are bound to that of Palestine, and we choose action, just as Aysenur did,” it said. “As we sail for Palestine, she is with us.”
*NOTE: Read Aysenur Ezgi Eygi’s story of solidarity with the Palestinian people here.
PROTEST, BOYCOTT, & OTHER NEWS:
Palestinians to ask UK to own up to ‘law violations’ between 1917 and 1948*
A group of Palestinians will serve a legal petition asking the UK to take responsibility for what they call “serial international law violations”, including war crimes committed during the British occupation of Palestine from 1917 to 1948, the consequences of which it says still reverberate today.
The 400-plus page document, drafted by human rights KCs, details “incontrovertible evidence” of the UK’s unlawful legacy, including the 1917 Balfour declaration, acting as an occupying power during the mandate period – an authority to rule the territory that it says had no legal basis – and the subsequent “systematic abuse” of the Palestinian people.
The submission says the Palestinian people face their gravest crisis since 1948, which Britain bears its own distinct responsibility for and so owes them a special debt (continue reading here).
*NOTE: Read about the history of the Palestinian issue, including the UK connection, here. For the US role in the birth of Israel and the dispossession of the Palestinians, read this book.
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Trump suggests Israel has accepted ceasefire deal, warns Hamas of consequences if rejects offer
“Everyone wants the Hostages HOME. Everyone wants this War to end!” US President Donald Trump wrote Sunday on his social media platform Truth Social. “The Israelis have accepted my Terms. It is time for Hamas to accept as well.”
Trump threatened consequences if Hamas rejects the offer, stating: “I have warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting. This is my last warning, there will not be another one!”
Israel’s acceptance has not been publicly confirmed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
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